We should all bow down to Microsoft's reinvention of the wheel
A very apt description of Microsoft's goal here. They want to reinvent the definition of platform and transition away from the Windows pit. The whole morass that Win32, with all the security, legal, design, stagnant code and other problems it creates for MS has become a trap. With this,.Net, Avalon, Sparkle, OS abtraction etc, Microsoft is redefining the platform - still closed formats, apis, protocols etc, but OS neutral. The OS can become a commoddity and MS can control their app base.
So what it boils down to is, Linux comprises of a half-dozen different help systems that don't work with each other.
No, what it boils down to is that you've never used Linux, or you'd know the KDE/Gnome help systems bring the man and info pages into the same interface.
Look, it was a good try at an astroturf, so well done for effort - but face facts - you've failed. Give it up.
Well, there's that little red-and-white lifesaver icon. That'll bring up the help system in Gnome or KDE. Then there's the speech bubble with the ? in it, that'll give you context-sensitive help. Or you could just start the KDE help center app and search in that. Or maybe you could open a terminal and type "apropos " and Linux would tell you which commands are relevant. Then you could type "man " or "info " and get some compact reading material. If you're still stuck, you could look into whichever distro you're using's forums. People there are almost always ready to assist. Or you could pay for commercial support - plenty of people willing to take money for tech support. Then there's http://www.linuxhelp.net/, which seems quite, umm, helpful. Typing "linux help" into a search engine will give you just under two hundred million hits to look into too - maybe one of those might be useful, do you think? Of course, for the traditionalists, there's always usenet. If you log onto any of the several hundred groups devoted to the various flavours of Linux, there just might be something to look at perhaps? Or maybe there's a local Linux User Group you could phone and talk to a real geek.
Apart from that, you're right. Linux does really leave you high and dry.
A corporate philosophy that computer owners will not be allowed to control their own hardware and information.
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"Vouche" is correct in British English.
It is not correct British English. Chaucer's been dead for half a millennia, and so has that spelling. After all, by forward and by composicioun, as ye han herd; what nedeth wordes mo?
I mean, what would be the effects of a nuclear war, for instance?
It'd sting a bit at first...
There would be next to nothing detectable at astronomical distances from a nuclear war, and the inevitable fall of the (un)civilisations which participated would be likely to prevent them being involved in any sort of astronomy for a long time afterwards.
How many Linux distros are there again? Yet there seems to be very few people pointing out that this is a problem. Diversity is a good thing they say.
Actually, there are dozens of posts in every Slashdot OS story pointing this out and claiming it's a problem.
The difference is that each Linux distro got started because some user wanted something the existing distros didn't provide. Because Linux is free and open, they were able to scratch that itch.
Whether the diverstity in Linux is desirable or not is irrelevant, because the diversity is a consequence of freedom.
Though of course, I go to CU, where that's supposedly a cardinal sin...
See, there's benefit in religious education. You get taught about all the things that the most fun in life. Of course, you're told not to do them, but at least when you fall off the wagon, you have a canonical list to start on.
Just a tip though, even though the penalty (eternal damnation) is the same for all of these sins, they're not all equally enjoyable.
For example, I'm not a huge fan of pride as a great pleasure, for me, it's overrated. Same with envy and anger.
Greed's all right in it's place, but to my mind, you're better off concentrating on gluttony, lust or sloth. Even better, with a box of chocolates, a hammock and an acrobatic girlfriend, combine all three.
They do, and it's sad to see the same mistakes being repeated over again. I was one of the unlucky buyers of the Siemens SL45, the first MP3 phone, and the biggest failing of that was the lack of integration between phone and music player.
Well, that and the crashing, fragility, and crappy proprietary headphones. One thing in the Rokr's favour is that Motorola supports their customers better than Siemens. Worst Support Ever.
Thats broadly true, but even in New Zealand where we have a decidedly non-duopolistic MMP system, the elections *still* come out too close to call and it can take months to form a government from the post-election mess.
Perhaps, but NZ also has a decidedly non-standard parliamentary system, with a combination of directly elected, party, and hereditary (Maori) representatives. Even then, the cabinet had ended up being a "winner-takes-all" organisation with only one non-Labour minister.
the Soviets had a nuclear-powered icebreaker that had a meltdown, in the Bearing Sea,
What a load of balls! Or perhaps you meant the Barents Sea?
In any case, you're probably thinking of the Lenin. It's three reactors, along with thirteen others from nuclear submarines, were dumped in the Kara sea.
In order to affect change via democracy at least 51% of the population must be intelligent enough to vote so as to actually affect that change.
No, that's only true in the rigged duopolies which have replaced most representative democracies.
The original intent of democracy was that each interest group could elect a person to represent their views to the rest of the nation. Because there was a multitude of opinions present, a representative would need to persuade a majority of their peers that their law was a good one. In a two-party system, the party which is elected, by definition, has an absolute majority, and can enact laws without regard for other interest groups.
Political parties have distorted the electoral systems to their own ends, so now most of the countries which were once democratic have become two-party oligarchies, and "representatives" from either party are much more successful at representing themselves than their electorate.
... and what about some sense of fashion for hearing aids?
You could make some with white ear buds, connect them to a white amplifier box with a circle on the front, and you'd be as flash as a rat with a gold tooth...
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We should all bow down to Microsoft's reinvention of the wheel
.Net, Avalon, Sparkle, OS abtraction etc, Microsoft is redefining the platform - still closed formats, apis, protocols etc, but OS neutral. The OS can become a commoddity and MS can control their app base.
A very apt description of Microsoft's goal here. They want to reinvent the definition of platform and transition away from the Windows pit. The whole morass that Win32, with all the security, legal, design, stagnant code and other problems it creates for MS has become a trap. With this,
So what it boils down to is, Linux comprises of a half-dozen different help systems that don't work with each other.
No, what it boils down to is that you've never used Linux, or you'd know the KDE/Gnome help systems bring the man and info pages into the same interface.
Look, it was a good try at an astroturf, so well done for effort - but face facts - you've failed. Give it up.
Ever seen a help system for a Linux distro?
Well, there's that little red-and-white lifesaver icon. That'll bring up the help system in Gnome or KDE. Then there's the speech bubble with the ? in it, that'll give you context-sensitive help. Or you could just start the KDE help center app and search in that. Or maybe you could open a terminal and type "apropos " and Linux would tell you which commands are relevant. Then you could type "man " or "info " and get some compact reading material. If you're still stuck, you could look into whichever distro you're using's forums. People there are almost always ready to assist. Or you could pay for commercial support - plenty of people willing to take money for tech support. Then there's http://www.linuxhelp.net/, which seems quite, umm, helpful. Typing "linux help" into a search engine will give you just under two hundred million hits to look into too - maybe one of those might be useful, do you think? Of course, for the traditionalists, there's always usenet. If you log onto any of the several hundred groups devoted to the various flavours of Linux, there just might be something to look at perhaps? Or maybe there's a local Linux User Group you could phone and talk to a real geek.
Apart from that, you're right. Linux does really leave you high and dry.
Tell me what they AREN'T changing.
A corporate philosophy that computer owners will not be allowed to control their own hardware and information.
"Vouche" is correct in British English.
It is not correct British English. Chaucer's been dead for half a millennia, and so has that spelling. After all, by forward and by composicioun, as ye han herd; what nedeth wordes mo?
Grease keeps systems working smoothly. Lawyers, money speculators, used car salesman, and a zillion other occupations are society's grease.
Nice analogy because, where I come from, we put grease between two large abrasive objects and grind it as flat as possible...
I'm unclear on how natives of new zealand would be more likely to kill you in australia than the US. Are there a lot of murderous emigrees?
Over here we call them "rugby players"
I mean, what would be the effects of a nuclear war, for instance?
It'd sting a bit at first...
There would be next to nothing detectable at astronomical distances from a nuclear war, and the inevitable fall of the (un)civilisations which participated would be likely to prevent them being involved in any sort of astronomy for a long time afterwards.
How many Linux distros are there again? Yet there seems to be very few people pointing out that this is a problem. Diversity is a good thing they say.
Actually, there are dozens of posts in every Slashdot OS story pointing this out and claiming it's a problem.
The difference is that each Linux distro got started because some user wanted something the existing distros didn't provide. Because Linux is free and open, they were able to scratch that itch.
Whether the diverstity in Linux is desirable or not is irrelevant, because the diversity is a consequence of freedom.
Won't happen on corporate desktops until installing packages becomes something my mother can do.
Ah yes, the old "mom's apple pie and corporate software install" argument. Because we all know that's how businesses test their operating systems.
IT Director: "Mother, can you come here please, we have a Linux distribution to test"
Mother: "Just a minute son, I'm ironing your father's shirt."
IT Director: "Mother, please! You know we have a billion dollar company to run here. Dad's shirt will just have to wait."
Mother: Well, if you say so, but just remember how upset he was about the Windows Vista chicken soup incident."
Yup, enlightenment from a Slashdot Microsoft shill. Worth every cent of the paper it's printed on...
That's where Novell comes in I guess, but still Microsoft will always have a huge advantage, just in sheer support power.
Spoken like someone who has never needed to use Microsoft's "sheer support power". That's one area where using Novell could end up being a big plus.
That's no troll! Ghost Rider's 500hp Hayabusa is a legend! http://www.level66.com/viewer-26831.html
Actually, I have to admit - when I saw the headline, the first thing I thought was "I knew Hayabusas were crotch rockets, but that's extreme..."
What I am saying that it is already a bit too late for MA to have an effect. It is too small and has a population already set on another format.
So you're saying we should never go anyhere because our first step isn't anywhere near our destination?
You, sirruh, are a genius. A genius.
Why is this man being moderated funny? He's informative, dammit, informative!
No little wind farm, or even (on our scale) massive wind farm is going to change this.
Wouldn't you just have to find the right butterfly, then swat the little bugger before if flaps it's wings?
Here in Australia it's just grog, mate. Anyone know the etymology?
It's onomatapaeic - from the sound it makes coming back up.
Though of course, I go to CU, where that's supposedly a cardinal sin...
See, there's benefit in religious education. You get taught about all the things that the most fun in life. Of course, you're told not to do them, but at least when you fall off the wagon, you have a canonical list to start on.
Just a tip though, even though the penalty (eternal damnation) is the same for all of these sins, they're not all equally enjoyable.
For example, I'm not a huge fan of pride as a great pleasure, for me, it's overrated. Same with envy and anger.
Greed's all right in it's place, but to my mind, you're better off concentrating on gluttony, lust or sloth. Even better, with a box of chocolates, a hammock and an acrobatic girlfriend, combine all three.
They're failures. People try again.
They do, and it's sad to see the same mistakes being repeated over again. I was one of the unlucky buyers of the Siemens SL45, the first MP3 phone, and the biggest failing of that was the lack of integration between phone and music player.
Well, that and the crashing, fragility, and crappy proprietary headphones. One thing in the Rokr's favour is that Motorola supports their customers better than Siemens. Worst Support Ever.
I would be willing to guess that these prehistoric flying animals weighted a few thousand kilograms still.
Not likely - the bones were hollow and wouldn't support a huge mass. It was probably more like a huge bat, with a skinny body and big leathery wings.
Thats broadly true, but even in New Zealand where we have a decidedly non-duopolistic MMP system, the elections *still* come out too close to call and it can take months to form a government from the post-election mess.
Perhaps, but NZ also has a decidedly non-standard parliamentary system, with a combination of directly elected, party, and hereditary (Maori) representatives. Even then, the cabinet had ended up being a "winner-takes-all" organisation with only one non-Labour minister.
that when this thing gets built that it won't do ANY of what it was originally intended to do
What do you expect, using ant logic. Every time you de-bug it, it stops working...
the Soviets had a nuclear-powered icebreaker that had a meltdown, in the Bearing Sea,
What a load of balls! Or perhaps you meant the Barents Sea?
In any case, you're probably thinking of the Lenin. It's three reactors, along with thirteen others from nuclear submarines, were dumped in the Kara sea.
In order to affect change via democracy at least 51% of the population must be intelligent enough to vote so as to actually affect that change.
No, that's only true in the rigged duopolies which have replaced most representative democracies.
The original intent of democracy was that each interest group could elect a person to represent their views to the rest of the nation. Because there was a multitude of opinions present, a representative would need to persuade a majority of their peers that their law was a good one. In a two-party system, the party which is elected, by definition, has an absolute majority, and can enact laws without regard for other interest groups.
Political parties have distorted the electoral systems to their own ends, so now most of the countries which were once democratic have become two-party oligarchies, and "representatives" from either party are much more successful at representing themselves than their electorate.
My goodness. Where have you been hiding?
Under a bridge. Duh.
P.S. You shouldn't feed it...
... and what about some sense of fashion for hearing aids?
You could make some with white ear buds, connect them to a white amplifier box with a circle on the front, and you'd be as flash as a rat with a gold tooth...